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Ten years later, police are seeking to find Adam Herrman. The strange story expanded this week as police named the parents of the then 11-year old adopted child as "people of interest" in the case as authorities expand their search nationwide, a sheriff said Monday. CNN reported that Kansas authorities will continue to search for Adam Herrman, even though the 'boy' was last seen in 1999 and would now be 21-years old.

Image: Butler County Sheriff's Dept

The boy was in Foster care at the time he went missing and was not reported missing until just a few weeks ago. The parents now say that the wish they had reported him missing, but when they took him into their care they were told that he ran away frequently. The couple has not been charged.


The mysterious case continues its twists and turns as authorities try and determine why the parents failed to notify authorities. "We don't know what happened to Adam Herrman past '99, when he was last seen," Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference in El Dorado. "Is he alive, is he dead? That one I can't answer because we don't know."

This doesn't quite seem like the usual missing child case and expect many to be chilled that the parents didn't even bother to report the child missing just because of his habit of running away.